Bands Who Are Better Broken Up
Posted Thu Aug 7, 2008 7:00am PDT by Shawn Amos in GetBack
VOTE: What band do you wish would reunite? Here's our pick.
The Police play their farewell show tonight at Madision Square Garden. They have said this is it for them. No more shows. No more albums. Bye bye, Police. Do we believe them? Dudes at that age with that much money don't need to tour.
Still, we've heard it before. The endless procession of bands saying "never again," citing "irreconcilable differences" only to hit the road one (or more) times when the paycheck gets big enough. Seems that no one says goodbye for good (except the Band; The Last Waltz really was the last waltz — except when they got back together a few years later. At least Robbie Robertson kept his word).
Here are five bands who couldn't stay apart, and evidence of why they should.
Van Halen
After burning through every other lead singer imaginable, I guess there was no other choice but to call up Diamond Dave again. Although, with Michael Anthony booted out of the band, it's not quite like the good old days. Here they are experiencing a first class train wreck playing their classic "Jump."
The Pixies
Unlike most reunions, the Pixies
sounded good when they got back together. Great on most nights. And at
least they were honest about it. They wanted the money. After years of
seeing other bands rip off their sound and get paid better, they
deserved it. Plus, how much could David Lovering have made as a
magician?
Stone Temple Pilots
The ultimate co-dependant rock
family. The DeLeo brothers and their wayward step-brother Scott Weiland
pretending like all those drug busts and and Velvet Revolver gigs never
happened.
The Who
Does anyone remember that the Who had their first farewell tour in 1982? Twenty-six years and two original members later. . . It's a long goodbye.
Simon & Garfunkel
You gotta love the irony of two guys who can barely look at each other calling their reunion tour "Old Friends."
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The Van Halen video used there was not edited, and the mess up is real and not a result of the sound quality.
BUT: the issue is that the synth part is played from a prerecorded track, and in that particular concert it was played back too fast. As a result the synth part sounds higher than it is supposed to be, and when the guitar and bass come in on the chords they are supposed to play they are the ones who sound off.
You can actually hear the difference during the parts where the synth isn't playing (like the solo); the band sounds like they are back on track until the synth starts again.
Also, that "trainwreck" in Greensboro was not Van Halen's fault. It was one of Ed's guitar-techs who was inaccurate with the keyboard...as obviously the keyboard was a half a step higher in pitch than the rest of the band. The guitar-tech was later fired on the same night.
On the better side of things... Pixies reunion is the best idea evaaaar!!!!